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[F.] Bruit respiratoire. The noise heard during inspiration and expiration, especially the former. It is produced by the passage of the air through the bronchial tubes and into the aie-cells. It has been also called murmur of the expansion of the lungs, [F.] Bruit d'expansion pulmonaire; and, when distinetly vesicular, Respiration of the cells or vesicular respiration, [F.] Respiration ou murmure vesiculaire. Vesicular respiration is of course absent when the cells of thes have been obliterated from any cause. We may then have the Respiration nulle, Absence du bruit respiratoire, Silence, and Respiration silencieuse of the French writers. At times, it is rude during inspiratiion, or both- the Respiration rude or R. vapeuse of the French. At others, there is a blowing sound, [F.] Suffle, Respiration soufflante, as if some one were blowing into the auscultators ear through a tube. This is heard in the healthy state over the larynx, trachea. [F.] Souffle tracheal, and about the bifurcation of the brochia. [F.] Souffle bronchique; but when it proceeds from the lungs it denotes disease. It may be tubular or diffused. In the former, the whiffing murmurs appear to occur in a space limited to theimmediate neighbourhood of the part examined. In the latter, they are produced with but moderate intensity, and sometimes at a distance from the ear, over a tolerably extended space. The respiration, perceived over the trachea and bronchia in health, is called trancheal or brochial or tubal, [F.] Respiration of bronchique, Souffle tubaire, according to the situation in which it is heard.